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Due to contractual obligations during ADCC 2005, Arona was unable to defend his Super Fight title against Lister and now he’s back in this epic match-up with Gracie.

“There is no grappling event in the world that is as exclusive as the invitation-only ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship,” said Kelly Perdew, President of ProElite.com.

“ADCC is a high-caliber brand with a world class event and we are privileged to be aligned with them.

This tournament occurs once every two years, making it a can’t-miss event that will not disappoint.” ADCC has staged the Submission Wrestling World Championship since 1998 with 2007 marking its 7th presentation of the biennial event.

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu was imported to Abu Dhabi, UAE from the United States when Sheik Tahnoon Bin Zayed Al Nayan studied in San Diego, California, and brought back Jiu-Jitsu master Nelson Monterio, Jr.

to found the ADCC.

The event has grown into the most prestigious of all grappling events, offering the largest purses in the discipline.

“Our goal with ADCC World Championship is to bring together the best the fighting world has to offer under one roof,” sa...

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What’s being concentrated, in other words, is not content but the economic value of content.

MySpace, Facebook, and many other businesses have realized that they can give away the tools of production but maintain ownership over the resulting products.

One of the fundamental economic characteristics of Web 2.0 is the distribution of production into the hands of the many and the concentration of the economic rewards into the hands of the few.

In other words, you maintain your social life on a corporately-owned networking site while that corporation reaps advertising rewards for the vibrancy you bring there.

What do you get?

The right to broadcast your life to millions of potential viewers on a branded portal.

It’s a sharecropping system, but the sharecroppers are generally happy because their interest lies in self-expression or socializing, not in making money, and, besides, the economic value of each of their individual contributions is trivial.

It’s only by aggregating those contributions on a massive scale - on a web scale - that the business becomes lucrative.

To put it a different way, the sharecroppers operate happily in an attention economy while their overseers operate happily in a cash economy.

In an earlier essay, Carr challenges ...